AssociatedBundleIdentifiers for LaunchAgents/Daemons

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Created Sep ’22

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In the launchd.plist manpage of Ventura I discovered that there is a new AssociatedBundleIdentifiers option. After I added the new option to our Agents and Daemon property lists the Login Items UI of System Settings still continues to show our Developer Program name instead of the name of our Application name.

AssociatedBundleIdentifiers <string or array of string>
     This optional key indicates which bundles are associated with this job in the System Settings Login Items UI. If an app installs a legacy plist the plist should include this
     key with a value of the app's bundle identifier.

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Answer 1

DTS Engineer OP

Apple

Sep ’22

Have you tested this on a fresh machine? One that’s never seen your product before? My experience is that macOS often caches state like this and it’s hard to clear that state.

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Answer 2

BoBKelso OP

Sep ’22

Hi Quinn, Yes, I did try it on my MacBook and on a VM that has never seen the product before. I have a Snapshot for this.

I noticed it picks up the Bundle icon from the App but the name is still our Developer Programs name.

Thanks Timo

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Answer 3

DTS Engineer OP

Apple

Sep ’22

Thanks for testing. Given that, I think it’s reasonable for you to file a bug about this.

Please post your bug number, just for the record.

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Quinn “The Eskimo!” @ Developer Technical Support @ Apple
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Answer 4

BoBKelso OP

Sep ’22

Hi Quinn,

I submitted a bug through Feedback FB11481528. Can you make sure it reaches the correct team?

Best Regards, Timo

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Answer 5

DTS Engineer OP

Apple

Sep ’22

I submitted a bug through Feedback FB11481528.

Thanks!

Can you make sure it reaches the correct team?

I can’t make that promise in general but, in this case, it’s definitely been seen by the right folks.

Reading your bug it seems that the documentation for AssociatedBundleIdentifiers ‘escaped’ before the implementation, meaning that it doesn’t work as documented on macOS 13 beta 7 (22A5342f). Please continue to test this as new betas are seeded.

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Quinn “The Eskimo!” @ Developer Technical Support @ Apple
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Answer 6

wriker OP

Oct ’22

any updates on this? It's still not working for me.

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